Hi, Has any one had any problems with S.u.S.E 5.3 glib and JDK, JSDK, and JavaWebServer1.1 ? I am going to move to S.u.S.E from slackware if all goes well, as I need glib and rpm support. Any tips would be great. Many thanks Matt > Resent-Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 10:06:08 -0500 > From: Michael Sinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 10:05:07 -0500 > Subject: Re: Which version of linux on which is JDK compiled? > Resent-Message-Id: <"YqAGO.0.HZ3.V76Hs"@shell> > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/3364 > X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On Sun, 01 Nov 1998 18:26:43 +0900, SHUDOH Kazuyuki wrote: > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]("Michael Sinz") wrote: > > > >> >What platform on which does binary distribution of JDK > >> >for linux compiled? Which version of linux kernel? > > > >> On x86 we use the production kernels since most users will > >> be using such kernels. Other platforms may use other > >> kernels. > > > >On other processors, e.g. Alpha, PowerPC and SPARC, > >what version of kernel is used generally? > >What platform on which does binary distribution compiled? > > The PowerPC group tends to use a relatively new 2.1.x (2.1.100+) > kernel. There are some fixes that are in the kernels and the > glibc that are needed there. > > I don't know about Sparc but I would guess that it is RedHat > based given the RedHat support for the Sparc. > > The Alpha work I will be doing will be stable kernel based as much > as possible (such as 2.0.35, which is what I am currently running) > The base system started out as a RedHat 5.0 distribution but has > been updated with many things since then. > > The JDK 1.1.7 v1a release was compiled for glibc on a 2.0.35 kernel > with RedHat 5.0 (plus lots of updates) The libc5 was build on a > rather generic SuSE 5.2 distribution with only minor upgrades. > > Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc. > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------- http://www.nextbus.com > My place on the web ---> http://www.users.fast.net/~michael_sinz > >